@Caldera Official #Caldera and $ERA He was originally just a 'laid-back' participant in Binance's spot market, throwing his idle 3,000 USDT into the ERA/USDT trading pair, setting a take-profit, and closing the app. The first turning point occurred late at night on July 16: a tweet from @calderaxyz popped up— the mainnet was about to integrate the OP-Stack's 'parallel EVM' upgrade, and the testnet TPS skyrocketed to over 50,000. He unexpectedly entered Binance's 'fund account' and found that ERA hadn't moved at all; a market order was filled in 2 seconds. The second turning point was even more bizarre: early on the 17th, Binance announced the temporary launch of the 'Caldera On-chain Earnings' entry, allowing users to lock up ERA to mine new L2 governance tokens with an annualized yield of 138%, but it was limited to 10 minutes. He rushed in, locked up 4,000 tokens, and ten minutes later the page went gray, with the annualized yield suddenly dropping to 12%. It wasn't until the 18th that he saw his locked transaction on the block explorer, marked by the official script as '#caldera Pioneer-001'. It turned out that Binance had hidden the on-chain earnings entry behind three jumps: 'spot → finance → limited time', and only 0.47% of users discovered it. The answer was revealed: ERA is not a meme; it is Caldera's gas token, and Binance quietly became its first CEX node.